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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(b) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.
(c) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.
(d) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.

2. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Psychologist.
(c) Psychoanalyst.
(d) Artist.

3. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?
(a) Inane.
(b) Obvious.
(c) Astute.
(d) Childish.

4. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.
(b) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(c) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(d) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.

5. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Create deceptions.
(b) Make the world get along better.
(c) Maintain secrecy.
(d) Lead to future discovery.

6. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a warning of death.
(b) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.
(c) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(d) As a baby in a cradle.

7. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(b) A major power of human nature.
(c) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(d) A symptom of mental illness.

8. Victor Hugo's literary character, Quasimodo, described what as "egg, nest, house, country and universe"?
(a) Notre Dame Cathedral.
(b) Aachen Cathedral.
(c) Canterbury Cathedral.
(d) The Taj Mahal.

9. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?
(a) Both are wonders of nature.
(b) Both inspire daydreaming and poetry.
(c) A nest is at the mercy of surrounding foliage during windstorms.
(d) It is hidden by the foliage, and constructed from the foliage.

10. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we hear.
(b) Internalities, that which we say.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Externalities, that which we say.

11. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In dark attics.
(b) In the imagination.
(c) In childhood homes.
(d) In criminal cellars.

12. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Dry poetics.
(b) Negative objectivity.
(c) Dry rationalism.
(d) Pop psychology.

13. What is a dream house for Bachelard?
(a) The largest house in the area.
(b) A house accessible only in dreams.
(c) A home one dreams of owning or a home one purchases and alters.
(d) A house that exists only in the poetic mind.

14. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

15. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective feelings and dreams.
(b) Its decor.
(c) The objects it contains.
(d) Subjective matters of taste and style.

Short Answer Questions

1. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?

2. What does a metaphor present?

3. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?

4. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?

5. Ultimately, as explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what can be used to communicate with other souls?

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